Senior RAMS Manager
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Provide overall management and leadership for RAMS on UK Projects, Products, and Services, exercising effective leadership to meet legal, customer, and contractual requirements. Manage safety-related interfaces between business, customers, and statutory bodies while overseeing the development and maintenance of safety and system assurance plans, analyses, and safety cases. Interface with clients to define system requirements and support RAMS input to bids, including safety management roles and costs. Coordinate on-site testing, commissioning, and safety audits, while supporting the Safety Authority with incident reporting, root cause analysis, and corrective action tracking. Manage team development, performance measures, and recruitment processes to ensure staff competencies align with railway RAMS standards and system assurance needs.
Required Qualifications
- Management and leadership for the Safety, RAM and System Assurance deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, from specification, Safety Case development through to safety approval and acceptance
- Interface with the client, to capture and define system and safety requirements, and later in the lifecycle the content of verification and validation activities and the required format for any Safety demonstrations
- Coordinate and support the RAMS input to bids, including the safety management organisation, roles and responsibilities, Safety engineering and Safety assurance/approvals activities and costs of tasks to be conducted
- Develop remits and managing contracts with independent bodies
- Preparation and supervision for on-site testing and commissioning of assets, equipment and systems in a railway environment
- Support and participation in Safety reviews and safety audits as appropriate
- Provide support to the Safety Authority for Incident reporting and response, including mitigation, root cause analysis, corrective action definition, tracking and closeout and lessons learned
- Support the RAMS Head of Function for strategic, communication and training initiatives
- Set functional and development objectives for individuals (in collaboration with the Head of Function)
- Manage and facilitate formal performance measures including any PIPs
- Support the recruitment process by reviewing CVs and participating in interviews
- Manage the demand from bids and projects to ensure that appropriate skills and nurture capability within your team (in collaboration with the Head of Function)
- Verify that processes are in place and followed to ensure that all staff have the right competencies to deliver their role
- Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) and Technical Safety techniques, methods and tools
- Specialist knowledge and experience of railway RAMS standards, such as EN50126, EN50716, EN50129 and European Railway Regulation for Safety and Interoperability
- Able to undertake independent investigations
- Experience in managing teams
- Technical Safety and RAM engineering background
- Knowledge and experience of railway systems and assets, particularly Mainline UK railway signalling, control and information systems
- Demonstrable track record in delivering safety solutions through safety approvals and into operation
- Experience in RAMS delivery activities within the rail industry or construction industry
- Experience in System Assurance
- Experience in developing Safety Cases for complex and safety critical systems and gathering required evidence/facts
- Strong leadership capability
- Self-motivated and the ability to work under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels
- Ability to manage and influence stakeholders, build and sustain strong working relationships
- An analytical and customer-focused approach
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload
- Hybrid role working a minimum of two days per week from one of our sites in London
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